Machine for attaching hooks and eyes to ribbon, cards, &amp;c.



PATENTED JULY 28, 1908.

. W. M. OORTHELL- MACHINE FOR ATTAOH'ING HOOKS AND EYES T0 RIBBON, CARDS, &o.

APPLILOATION FILE 1D OUT. 19, 1907.

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W. M. .GORTHELL. MACHINE FOR ATTAGHIN IBBON, CARDS, &o.

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PATE'NTED JULY 28, 1908.

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. MACHINE on ATTAGI-IING HOOKS AND EYES T0 RIBBON, cAnns, a:

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 28, 1908.

Application filed October 19, 1907. Serial No. 398,284.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that 1, WILLIAM M. CoR'rHELL, a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Attaching Hooks and Eyes to Ribbon, Cards, &c. and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descri tion of the invention, such as will-enable ot ers skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to means for attaching hooks and eyes to ribbons, cards, or the like, and its object is to produce a simple, economical modification of known sewing machines to effect the purposes named.

The invention consists 1n the-constructionhereinafter particularly pointed out and described.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates the invention and which forms a part of the specification (and-which shows the imgrovement applied to a machine of the inger type) ,Figure 1 is a partial side elevation of the improved machine; Fig. 2 is a pers ective of a card follower; Fig. 3 comprises a slde and end elevation of a post to which the follower is pivoted; Fig. 4 is a partial plan of the machine the upper part of the sewin machine being omitted; Fig. 4 is a partiaI side view showing feed devices; Fig. 4 is a partial perspective view showing a lurality of feed devices operated from a single shaft; Fig. 5 is a partial end elevation; Fig. 6 is an en arged elevation of a holder-stop, ratchet and pawl; Fig. 7 is a plan of the machine on a reduced scale and diagrammatic in character;

Fi 8 is an end view of a hook and eye ho der; Fig. 9 is a partial sideelevation; Fig. 10 is a cross section of the same; Fig. 11 shows a card-moving plate to be attached to a holder; Fig. 12 is a perspective of a side plate of the holder; Fig. 13 is a perspective of a holder sup ort; Fig. 14 is a section on line 1414 of *ig. 7 ;.Fig. 15 is a section on line 1515 of Fi 7. Fig. 16 is a partial side view of a ho der on an enlarged scale,

- showing a roller and a spring bearing thereon.

Numeral 1 (see Fig. 7) denotes a table with several stations 2 for operatives.

3 indicates a series of slpports for hook and eye holders 9 to be fille with hooks and eyes.

4 denotes the bed plate of the sewing maingoing part of the belt, as indicated in Fig. 7.

This belt 6 is driven in any suitable manner and moves in the direction indicated by arrows. It runs about pulleys 7 which extend through the bed plate in slots provided for -the purpose, one of the rollers having a driving pul ey 36 on a shaft 35. The driving means may be varied. The belt also runs about rollers 8 supported under the bed plate. Two parts of the belt thus move oppositely above the bed plate, as indicated by arrows, but are connected below it and passed over the suitably disposed pulleys, as indicated in Figs. 7, 14 and 15. Each hook and eye holder 9 is adapted to be held on either su port 3 (Figs. 7 and 18). Holders filled with on the bed plate 4 in Fig. 5.

' In practice filled holders may be laced in succession on cards 13 previously p aced on the bed plate in front of a plate 17, and a follower provided with flanges 12. The follower is pivotally supported on a movable post 14. This post is guided by the edges of plates 15 entering grooves 16 in the foot of the post. Two hook and eye holders 9, one on each outer edge of these plates 15 are guided thereby. The card-moving plates 17 fixed to the rear of the holders engages cards successively placed on the bed plate before the holders are placed under flanges 12 of the follower. The plates 15 may be supported by brackets 15 on cross piece 15 and on the bed plate. moved in the resent instance by a weight 18 suspended y a cord 20 running over pulleys 21 to an eye 22 fixed on the foot of post 14. By these devices a filled holder and card may be drawn under friction rolls 23, engaging the upper surface of the holder, and between flanges 23 of such rolls. The rolls and holder may be provided with any suitable friction surface. On the oscillating feed shaft 25 are arms 24" each of which The follower is ,so hooks and eyes are shown placed longitudinally moves a feed plate comprising two ratchet like feed members 24.

24 is a rotary shaft carrying a cam 24 for each feed device which rotate in the 5 forked ends 24 of the feed plates to give an up and down movement thereto. The longitudinal and vertical movements are timed in relation to movements of the needles and other sewing mechanism to feed the proper 1 distance between successive stitches, as well understood in the art.

26 is a ratchet wheel fixed on the axis of a friction roll 23 and extending through a slot 27 in the bed plate and intermittently stopped by a pawl 28 also on shaft 25, the movement of pawl 28 being indicated in dotted lines in Fig. .1.

In the situation of parts shown in Fig. 4 the feed plates 24 are in the midst of their go forward or feeding movement the plates being inelevated situation to act on and feed ribbon a. The pawl 28 is moving into holding position against tooth 28 in time to positively prevent the holders being 5 moved too far. The holders having been drawn under the first friction rolls 23 rotate the latter and also the ratchet wheel 26 fast on the same shaft. It is not important that the succeeding shafts be thus driven. The 30 feeding devices 24 acting on the cards (or on a ribbon or ribbons or tapes when such are used instead of cards) and through them on the holders, cooperate with the weight 18 to move the holders after they have been engaged therewith by the action of the weight. The purpose of the ratchet and pawl is to arrest the movement of the holders at the time when the hooks and eyes supported in the holders are immediately over the needle 40 holes 29. The pawl 28 is oscillated by the feed shaft and engages the teeth in succession and in manner to insure that the progress of the holders shall be suitably arrested to bring the thread loops 29 of. the hooks and eyes carried by the holder directly under the needles 29 otherwise there would be danger of overrunning. The ratchet wheel and pawl are so related that the wheel teeth shall be engaged by the oscillating pawl in succession, but when the feed of the holder starts after each reciprocation of the needles the pawl is out of engagement and hence does not interfere with proper forward movement.

The operation, in case hooks and eyes are to be attached to ribbon, a, is not limited to a single ribbon, but one, two or more ribbons, tapes or the like may be fed from the reel 1) and supplied with hooks and eyes.

30 denotes a fixed stop for the follower, and 31 springs supported on cross piece 15 to hold the forward end of the holders down while moving to and under the first rolls 23.

32 denotes disks which strip the loaded 5 ribbon, or cards, from the holders and adj acent an outlet 33 through the bed plate. 8 L indicates a passage by which the ribbon passes from below to above the bed plate.

I Evidently the improvement is not limited to the weight as a motive power, nor to other details provided the general principles of construction and operation are not substantially departed from.

Having thus described the invention what I claim is,

1. In an apparatus for attaching hooks and eyes to ribbon, cards or the like, a sewing mechanism, disjoined hook and eye holders, a table adjacent said mechanism, and an endless belt having parts situated above the table running in opposite directions to carry holders to and from-said mechanism, connected belt-parts under the table, and suitable guiding pulleys.

2. In an. apparatus for attaching hooks and eyes to ribbon, cards or the like, a sewing mechanism, hook and eye holders, a table adjacent said mechanism, and an endless belt having oppositely moving parts situated closely adjacent the table top to carry holders to and from said mechanism, and said table having a series of stations 2 for operatives situated on one side of the table adjacent and parallel to a straight part ofthe belt, and supports 3 for holders adjacent said stations.

3. In an apparatus such as described, a sewing mechanism, hook and. eye holders, a table adjacent said mechanism, and an endless belt to carry holders between the mech anism and said. table, said belt being combined with belt guiding pulleys whereby holdercarrying parts of the belt situated above the table move oppositely, said parts being connected under the table top.

4. In an apparatus such as described, a table, sewing mechanism including an oscillating feed shaft, a plurality of hook and eye holders, a holder follower, a weight, a connection between the weight and the follower,

a friction roller to bear on a holder, and a stop for the holder follower.

5. In an apparatus such as described, a table, sewing mechanism including an oscillating feed shaft, a plurality of hook and eye holders, a holder follower, a friction roller to bear on a holder, a stop for the follower, a ratchet wheel 011 the axis of said roller, and a pawl operatively supported on the oscillating shaft to arrest the movement of the roller.

6. In an apparatus such as described, a table, a sewing mechanism, a plurality of hook and eye holders, a follower, and means to move the follower to move the holders, a plurality of friction rolls bearing on the holders, an oscillating feed shaft of the sewing mechanism, a ratchet fixed to the axis of said rolls, and a stop pawl carried by said feed shaft intermittently engaging the ratchet.

7. In an apparatus of the character described, a sewing mechanism, a hook and eye holder, a follower, means for moving the follower and holder, and a ribbon roll situated beneath the bed plate, said plate being slotted for the passage of the ribbon from its roll to the upper side of the plate.

8. In an apparatus of the character described, a sewing mechanism, a. hook and eye holder, a follower, means for moving the follower and holder, a ribbon roll situated beneath the bed plate, said late being slotted for the passage of ribbon rom its roll to the upper side of the plate, and slotted for the return of the ribbon with attached hooks and eyes below the bed plate.

9 In an apparatus of the character de scribed, hook and eye holders, in combination with friction rolls bearing on the holders, and means to move a plurality of holders into engagement with corresponding rolls, said means comprising a holder-follower, and a ower-transmitting device to move the folower to push holders under the rolls.

10. In an apparatus of the character described, hook and eye holders, in combination with friction rolls including one bearing on a holder, means to move the holders and push oneinto engagement with a roll, said means including a follower bearing down on the rear end of the holder,

11. In an apparatus of the character described, sewing mechanism including needles, oscillating feed shaft and feeding devices, hook and eye holders, friction rolls, a powertransmitting device to move a holder under a friction roll, a ratchet fixed to the roll, and a pawl fixed to said shaft to engage the ratchet to arrest the action of said device when the loops of the hooks and eyes are table.

13. In an apparatus of the character described, a sewing mechanism, hook and eye holders, and means for moving them on the bed plate of the machine, a guide for said holders, and a ribbon roll, said machine having a slotted bed late whereby ribbon may be drawn from be ow the table to its upper surface under the needles, and then moved below the table, and said holders having a cardmoving device whereby the machine may attach hooks and eyes either to ribbon or to cards.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM M. CORTHELL.

Witnesses:

A. T. BURNS, H. L. FRANO. 

